Was einstein faith conversation with professor real?

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Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?
Student : Yes.
Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent.)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Is satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor: Where does satan come from ?
Student : From … GOD …
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor: So who created evil ?
(Student did not answer.)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them ?
(Student had no answer.)
Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No , sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.
Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn’t.
(The lecture theater became very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)
Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)
Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class was in uproar.)
Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter. )
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.
Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.

interested1208 · Accepted Answer

Nope...

It's been around a long time and is just as inciped now as it was then...

It's just that those who claim it's some great insight to prove their god exists think it's somehow profound...

IMHO

Anonymous · Answer

Albert Einstein Professor

Anonymous · Answer

I remember a post like this which indicated little "Einstein's" age around 8 or 9 years old and this happened in class. Like, they brought recorders in class during that time, or Einstein's classmates were diligently transcribing this "conversation" verbatim. And if this were true, this was Einstein with the mind of a child! And does not reflect his religious views in adulthood at all. Is there not a famous figure who is a "God" believer that they could credibly use for this drama?!?! Very typical of theists! Plagiarism and misrepresentation just so they can feed their insatiable need for all their religious drama. 

fFom Snopes:
Origins: For those looking for a quick answer of whether this item is literally true, we'll state upfront that it is not. Nothing remotely like the account made above appears in any biography or article about Albert Einstein , nor is the account congruent with the scientist's expressed views on the subject of religion. His name has simply been inserted into an anecdote created long after his death in order to provide the reading audience with a recognizable figure and thus lend the tale an air of versimilitude.

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Was einstein faith conversation with professor real?
Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?
Student : Yes.
Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD...

? · Answer

einstein faith conversation professor real

marqsui j · Answer

@Maria .... the main two things are being missed here is the basic definition of DARK... Darkness in no sense is the absence of light...  it is simply the absence of VISIBLE light... in simple terms Darkness is the part of the light spectrum we can not detect.. i.e. ultraviolet, cosmic rays on one end and broadcast radio waves on the other.  The universe is flooded with light/energy and there are no "blind spots" where light doesnt exit.  Only were light we can not detect exists.

This is evident by the sky being dark at night. There are stars that burn 100 million times brighter than the sun but because the light ray travels so far it's wavelength is stretched making most of the light from distance stars undetectable and allowing it to pass through rather than scattering off our atmosphere.

Also, there is a obvious misuse of the word cold.  cold has two definition ... one being subject as of having low temperature, the opposite of hot temperature. The other being a state state of thermal energy in quantum mechanics that describe low thermal energy.  Neither is the "absence of heat"(thermal energy) matter still has zero-point energy even at absolute zero, because of the uncertainty principle.

? · Answer

@Maria: You state that "Light is the added thing to what really exists", called "darkness".

This would indicate that both "light" and "darkness" are both detectable objects or substances with identifiable physical properties, which can be observed, measured and quantified.  Otherwise, you cannot "add" anything to something that does not exist.

Light, as we humans have observed, measured and quantified it, consists of sub-atomic particles (called photons) which contain sufficient kinetic energy as to move faster than our visual cortex can process them individually (or en masse).  They have a set of behavioral patterns affected by density, gravity, and distortion which are easy to replicate either directly or by observation of additional events.  Although we have not directly seen a photon (but several years back, there was official news that a physics lab had successfully photographed one in mid-travel -- and had shifted at the moment of the photo), there is more than sufficient deductive evidence that indicate support for the existence of photons, and therefore of light having physical properties.

Darkness has yet to see the light of its own discovery thus far, even by quantum physicists and astrophysicists who spend their whole multiple decades of careers hunting down and doing math to figure out "dark matter".

Therefore, since you say you are aware that darkness exists in physical form, can you pick me up a box of it on your next trip to the store, if you happen to be heading there later?  Just let me know how much it costs and I'll pay you back when you drop it off to me.  Thanks.

Jeffrey · Answer

this story is full of bullshit, because:

1. science never said a word abt existence of god. science isn't abt WHO.
2. science uses the international system unit called kelvin. cold is relative. only idiots believe that cold is the opposite of heat.
3. evolution doesn't teach that human evolved from from a monkey.
4. microevolution has been scientifically proven
5. brain can be observed. an MRI scan reveals the gross anatomical structure of the human brain.

? · Answer

No, it's not real; Einstein didn't believe in a personal god or an afterlife. And the "professor" in that story is the worst professor I've ever heard.

Jeffrey · Answer

They only inserted his name because they wanted to add someone we all know. It's false, it was created a long time after he died.

His [Einstein's] last words are also unknown, due to him saying it in German and the nurse didn't know German

Anonymous · Answer

There are flaws in the argument of Einstein. For what really does exist is the darkness. Light is the result of any action and it does not exist on its own. Light is the added thing to what really exists(darkness). therefore it follows light is the privation of darkness. The same with heat which is the privation of cold.

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